About Dwayne
Dwayne Kilgore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on trauma and mood concerns. He brings six years of professional counseling experience alongside a longer history of community-based Christian lay counseling in the Dallas area. His approach is warm and interactive, aimed at helping people regain control of difficult parts of life.
Dwayne often works with people coping with trauma and post-traumatic stress. He also helps with anxiety, depression, anger, grief, bipolar mood concerns, and intimacy-related struggles.
How Dwayne works
Additional areas he addresses include codependency, communication problems, fatherhood issues, and money or financial stress. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new ways of responding. He also draws on Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients set goals and build small, practical changes.
For trauma and PTSD, he uses trauma-focused methods aimed at processing painful experiences. In sessions he aims to be supportive, positive, and collaborative. The work is interactive and focused on specific goals people bring to therapy.
Dwayne emphasizes practical tools that people can use between meetings to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. People who choose him can expect a steady, goal-oriented process that combines talking, skill practice, and planning. He frames therapy as a partnership where clients move toward clearer choices and more manageable steps forward.
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What Dwayne works with
The areas below are the ones Dwayne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches for online trauma and mood work
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. It uses simple exercises and experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting, often helpful for panic, social anxiety, and mood regulation.Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on processing painful events and reducing traumatic reactions. This approach uses structured steps to gently revisit traumatic memories, identify patterns, and build coping skills so day-to-day triggers feel less overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than imposing a single method.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for in-depth discussion and exercises, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can suit quick check-ins and step-by-step support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or daily routines while keeping the focus on progress and practical skills.
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